In keeping with NASA's focus on Women in Data for the 2015 Space Apps Challenge, the Space Apps Data Bootcamp will be led by many exceptional women making an impact on the world through their engagement with data and IBM is glad to be a part of this...

In keeping with NASA's focus on Women in Data for the 2015 Space Apps Challenge, the Space Apps Data Bootcamp will be led by many exceptional women making an impact on the world through their engagement with data and IBM is glad to be a part of this...

Good to see that this article over on developerWorks: Design, manage, and test multi-instance Bluemix applications . As the introduction says: IBM® Bluemix™ services provide a range of options for handling spikes in application traffic, from...

Making decision based on data seems a good idea, doesn't it? After all, this is the value promised by all Big Data promoters out there. Let's look at a real use case to understand better what might go right or wrong. I will focus on...

Introduction During the course of this article you will be presented with three different offline patterns. These are commonly used to create working offline scenarios for mobile applications. The first pattern will take the naive approach of porting an...

Model-based what? Unless you've been living under a mountain of textual specification and source code, you've likely heard of either model-based systems engineering (MBSE) or model-driven development (MDD). The results that I have seen, as a result of...

Last year, AmyS blogged on the progress defining our internal Continuous Delivery process. To follow up on those concepts, I would like to share some of our latest experiences from the Product Line Engineering (PLE) delivery team in adopting these processes...

Ever had a horrific customer experience just trying to obtain service from a company, for example, a DSL provider? I did recently and it was unbelievably heinous, the net of which was that after 8 days, 6+ hours of my time on the phone, and interacting...

MORE THAN ADS. WHY SOCIAL MEDIA IS THE PLACE TO BE? People are constantly hooked up with their smartphones and their tablets are always within arm's reach so it makes it even more profitable for businesses to connect to them through the web....

MORE THAN POSITIVE REP. Web Reputation Management (Online Identity Management / Personal Branding) An owner understands that his business’ public image means everything -- you could lose partners, employees, and customers with a negative...

This time I'm going to make your life better in a most delicious way (unless you are vegetarian/vegan). There's going to be some useful but gratuitous technical design stuff and some links, but the meat of the post is after that. Importance of...

MORE THAN A WEBSITE. WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT In the off chance that you don't have a website yet (I know, shucks), it's never too late to have one. Just get the web’s hosting and the domain registration and we'll handle the whole shebang....

New IBM Support Portal design coming at the end of October! 31 OCT 2013 Update : Great news! The new IBM Support Portal design has deployed! Visit our announcement article for a new video about all the changes plus even more details and...

It’s been two weeks since my last blog on the transformation of our internal Continuous Delivery process, and while the progress has been slow, the ‘baby steps’ approach is moving into ‘toddler’ mode – at times chaotic and...

Orchadmin is a command line utility provided by datastage to research on data sets. The general callable format is : $orchadmin <command> [options] [descriptor file] 1. Before using orchadmin, you should make sure that either the working...

As the lead functional designer in charge of complex IT scenarios for the IBM Rational Design Team, I was challenged recently to help our internal development organization ‘walk the talk’ – drink our own champagne, practice what we preach,...

Have you looked at modules in Rational Requirements Composer (RRC) or DOORS Next Generation (DNG) yet? If not, I would suggest you take a look to see if it can help you better organize and manage your requirements. We think they're kind of a...

Where to begin.. My head is still reeling. So much sharing, so much learning, so much fabulous geekery! Expedition Everest wasn’t the only rollercoaster I rode last week. During Innovate, from one moment to another I was up and down...

The Rational Design team, as part of the Rational software team and IBM as a whole, is on a mission to make our products useful, usable and desirable. We know that many people rely on IBM products and solutions to help them do their jobs. We want to make the...

After getting JazzSM successfully installed with your other products, it is time to create a dashboard that is effective and useful to your clients. You deal with questions like: What type of information shall my dashboard display? How will this provide value...

I’ve developed a number of medical devices in my career
ranging from cardiac pacemakers to integrated anesthesia systems. As many of
you know, I’m also a big proponent of agile methods, primarily as a means of
improving quality but also as a way of...

In working with the semiconductor and custom ASIC industries the design challenges that keep coming up are time to market, complexity, and cost of recall/redesign. These issues have become more acute as the rise of mobile platforms (smart phones, tablets) has...

2013 marks another year with continued interest in Architecture and Design, after all, Good Design is Good Business! I'm pleased to announce a webcast series that includes a number of useful topics and better yet, some wonderful speakers that include IBM...